SFIA Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring SFIA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 - 74
Rank change year-on-year - - +26
Contract jobs citing SFIA 12 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 1.07% - 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% - 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 1
10th Percentile £533 - -
25th Percentile - - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - -23.33%
75th Percentile £589 - £588
90th Percentile £625 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £565 - £575
% change year-on-year - - -23.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

SFIA falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 950 502 871
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 85.05% 92.28% 87.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 601 327 509
10th Percentile £295 £263 £300
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £570 £550 £578
90th Percentile £625 £641 £668
Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +1.47% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 36
10th Percentile £13.58 £20.11 £11.95
25th Percentile £14.25 £22.14 £12.15
Median hourly rate £20.15 £27.50 £12.53
Median % change year-on-year -26.73% +119.47% -53.59%
75th Percentile £24.22 £41.50 £15.24
90th Percentile £69.40 £99.93 £38.25
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 £21.24 £13.50
% change year-on-year +7.39% +57.33% +27.00%

SFIA
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SFIA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

SFIA job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

SFIA
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing SFIA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing SFIA

SFIA
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SFIA in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 28 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SFIA in West Yorkshire

SFIA
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SFIA within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 28 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leeds - 12 £565 - 6
SFIA
Yorkshire

SFIA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) AWS
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Git
1 5 (41.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Military
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Senior
2 6 (50.00%) Analyst
2 6 (50.00%) Business Analyst
2 6 (50.00%) Senior Manager
3 5 (41.67%) Agile Delivery Manager
3 5 (41.67%) Delivery Manager
3 5 (41.67%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
3 5 (41.67%) Senior Delivery Manager
4 2 (16.67%) Agile Delivery Lead
4 2 (16.67%) Lead
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Business Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Technical Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Technical Business Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Technical Business Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Product Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Product Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) DevOps
2 7 (58.33%) Software Delivery
2 7 (58.33%) Software Engineering
3 6 (50.00%) Agile
4 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
4 5 (41.67%) Sprint Planning
4 5 (41.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 5 (41.67%) User Stories
5 4 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
5 4 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 4 (33.33%) Business Enablement
5 4 (33.33%) Lean Thinking
5 4 (33.33%) Office Automation
5 4 (33.33%) Scrum
6 3 (25.00%) CRM
6 3 (25.00%) Data Engineering
6 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (25.00%) Migration
6 3 (25.00%) Software Testing
6 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) ServiceNow